By Isaac Adams-Hands
This article explains how to automatically add your Facebook Status to a website without having a Facebook Fan Page and Like Box. The benefits to this are:
- increased referral traffic to your website
- higher SEO ranking
- less updates on various sites, making daily updates easier, especially from mobile devices
- increase user engagement
1. Log into facebook.com >> enter facebook.com/notifications in the url bar
2. Click on the RSS link
Facebook Notifications - Click to enlarge
3. In the url bar, replace “/notifications.php” with “/status.php”
RSS Feed - Click to enlarge
e.g. feed:http://www.facebook.com/feeds/notifications.php?id=xxxxx&viewer=xxxxx&key=xxxxx&format=rss20
e.g. feed:http://www.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=xxxxx&viewer=xxxxx&key=xxxxx&format=rss20
Status - Click to enlarge
4. In WordPress, go to Appearance >> Widgets
Add the RSS widget to the sidebar and enter your personal status url:
e.g. feed:http://www.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=xxxxx&viewer=xxxxx&key=xxxxx&format=rss20
*remember, if you are using Facebook secure browsing (https), remember to remove the “S” in http.
Widget - Click to enlarge
5. Test to make sure everything is running smoothly
Isaac, thank you for this post. Do you know of a way where I can pull the feed from a Facebook page rather than a profile? I tried following the same steps for a fan page, but each time I changed notifications.php to status.php, Facebook asked me if I want to switch contexts, from viewing as the fan page to viewing as myself. After I agree, my own RSS is loaded.
Any idea?
I’d try it manually in TextEdit. Or Try Miahelf’s example.
To view a fan page you don’t need to be logged in or anything. So, in WordPress where it says “Enter the RSS feed URL here” put this instead:
http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=atom10&id=YOURFBFANPAGEID
For example, viewing Jon Stewart’s fan page the URL looks like this, and the string of numbers at the end is the page ID:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jon-Stewart-for-President/193859733506
Thanks for the quick tip, Facebook is constantly changing so new techniques are always an asset.
Hello , is there any way of rather then having an RSS box have the Facebook status updates automatically post to your WP like a normal blog post?